"Our foreign policy was so pro-Israel that we alienated the Arabs, yet our energy policy, such as it was, made us dependent on Arab oil." Death Akins died July 15, 2010, in Mitchellville, Maryland, after a heart attack. References External links Interview with PBS on the Survival of Saddam" Articles by James Akins "The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967, And the 32-Year Cover-up That Has Followed", Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 1999. "The New Arabia", Foreign Affairs, Summer 1991. "The Arabists", April 16, 1994. 1926 births People from Akron, Ohio Ambassadors of the United States to Saudi Arabia 2010 deaths United States Foreign Service personnel United States Navy personnel of World War II